Paula Deen Breaks Her Silence: "My Words Hurt People"

The celebrity chef is set to make a comeback with a new website.

More than a year after a racism scandal led to her losing most of her business deals, Paula Deen is ready for a comeback — and she's learned a lot about how words can affect people, regardless of intention.

"Words are so powerful. They can hurt. They can make people happy. Well, my words hurt people," Deen said on the Today show this morning. "They disappointed people and frankly, I disappointed myself. And for that, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for the hurt that I caused people because it went deep."

But Deen is ready to start a new chapter in her career. She's starting the Paula Deen Network, a subscription-based website that costs $9.99 a month. The site will include 10 years of video from her old Food Network show, plus new videos and a documentary that aims to tell her side of the scandal. "We hope to have it out the first of the year and tell everybody the true story of what really happened," Deen told the Associated Press.